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A much larger provision will have to be made in the future
under this head.
LIGHTING.
The public lamps, 1,004 number, have been supplied,
lighted, cleaned, and repaired by the Commercial Gas Company
at a cost of £3,646 5s. 4d.
STEAM ROLLER.
Your roller has worked 227 days on your own roads and
has been let on hire 19½ days.
The cost for labour and fuel has been £183 2s. 10d. Repairs
£41 15s. 9d. The machine is now fairly worn out, and a new
one will have to be provided in the coming year; it has, however,
been an excellent investment for the Vestry, but a modern
one would save £80 a year in labour alone.
SEWERS.
A work of great importance in the Commercial Road has been
completed, a new invert has been put in from the New Road to
Jamaica Street. Two Hushing tanks, one at Cannon Street Road
and the other at Sidney Street, have been constructed at the
joint cost of St. George's Vestry and yourselves.
The old sewer in Sidney Street has been broken up and a new
one substituted, the cost of this work was £1937.
The only portion of the District subject to flooding at times
of ordinary storm is Ben Jonson Road and the lower part of
Harford Street. The sewage from these Streets is carried under
the Regent's Canal by a syphon which there is 110 means of
cleansing, and it is only reasonable to suppose that in the course
of the eighty years it has existed, must be considerably reduced
in area by deposit. I have made various representations to the
County Council on this subject and am now assured that plans
are ready for altering the flow of these sewers.
The cost of cleansing and repairing the sewers including small
works of construction and reconstruction has been £881 12s. 3d.